Same Life, New Story by Jan Silvious has the subtitle “Change Your Perspective to Change Your Life”. It is indeed a good book for women who are going through difficult circumstances and need encouragement to change. The book is also said to be a Bible study. But it’s not a study guide as I expected. [...]
Another book given to me by B for my birthday. She warned me it’s a tear jerker, and it is. I cried at several parts of the book. Same Kind of Different As Me is a true story of the friendship between Ron and Deborah Hall, an affluent white couple, and Denver Moore, a rough, [...]
Josephine Tey, the pen name of Elizabeth Mackintosh, is a contemporary of Agatha Christie. I’ve been trying to request her books from the library, but it seems not many of her books are in print. The first time I requested a book by Tey, it arrived in Chinese! That was interesting. A Shilling for Candles [...]
My friend B gave me this book for my birthday on Tuesday. I finished reading it today. That tells you how engaging this book is. In fact, I even set aside my mystery novel to read this book. I’ve heard of 90 Minutes in Heaven and have seen it as a New York Bestseller in [...]
Voices of the Faithful with Beth Moore is a unique blend of daily devotions, missionary stories, and Bible teaching. The collection of missionaries’ experiences from around the world are organized as daily devotions into monthly topics such as God’s Character, Prayer, Contentment, Spiritual Warfare. Each month begins with an introduction of the theme by Beth [...]
This daily devotional book by Charles Stanley should be kept next to your Bible. In fact, it’s a sturdy hardback probably about the same size as my Bible. Each day’s devotion begins with a short passage to read from the Bible. A key verse follows that highlights the main idea for the day. Then comes [...]
The King’s Christmas List is a cute children’s book written by Eldon Johnson. It’s a hardback beautifully illustrated by Bonnie Leick. I would consider this a gift book appropriate for children under 10 years old, reading this book with their parents, snuggled under covers with a cup of hot chocolate on a cool Christmasy day. [...]
Ever wonder how God can use you in a significant way? Even an average Joe like you? In Outlive Your Life, Max Lucado gives an excellent perspective on living a life of “goodness that outlives the grave, love that outlasts the final breath.†I expected this book to be just another inspirational book on living [...]
Knowing that I like to read mysteries, my sign language teacher told me this book is light reading and entertaining. I think it’s a little too light, and I did not find it very entertaining. Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled by Dorothy Gilman is one in a series of Mrs. Pollifax novels. This is the first one [...]
Unsure of what to do with your life? You Can Be Everything God Wants You To Be will inspire you and put you on the right path. The book by Max Lucado is a small, 127 pages on 5″ x 7″ paper. I suppose this would be considered a gift book. But it’s filled with [...]
Have you ever wondered how the 66 books of the Bible all fit together? Is there a common thread that runs through from Genesis to Revelation? In his book 66 Love Letters, Dr. Crabb gives a brief summary of each of the 66 books of the Bible along with the general theme of each book, [...]
I am not giving a full review here, but just noting a couple of books I read recently. Easy to Kill, another classic by Agatha Christie, was a reread for me. It’s not usually much fun to reread a mystery because you would already know whodunnit. But I forgot who the murderer was until half [...]
I read another biography of a Christian hero (children’s narrative version). William Booth is the founder of the Salvation Army. With what do you associate the Salvation Army? Soliciting money at Christmas with the ringing bell? The Salvation Army truck picking up your discards? The Salvation Army band at parades? (there is an interesting history [...]
I love to read whodunnit type of mysteries in the classic tradition of Agatha Christie. Unfortunately, Withering Heights by Dorothy Cannell is not one of them. I read the first in this Ellie Haskell series, Thin Woman, a while ago. I didn’t love it, but I thought I’d try another book by this author. The [...]
I know, the details do not all fit, but i still liked it. I like the Artemis Fowl series because it’s fun reading, a little humor, a little action, and lots of imagination. Everyone wants to be Artemis Fowl – a boy genius with a criminal mind, but deep inside, he has a soft heart [...]
I’ve not read a biography of Hudson Taylor until now. I borrowed this book from Bonnie. Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret by Howard and Geraldine Taylor is apparently a fairly brief version of Hudson Taylor’s life, less than 200 pages. With the full life he lived, I can imagine how big a book his life story [...]
My sister lent me the book Falling Leaves, The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline tells of her life growing up in a prominent Chinese family with wealth, but not love acceptance. (I hesitate to say she lacked love because love could’ve been expressed in ways that she didn’t see. [...]
After I finished reading The Life You’ve Always Wanted by by John Ortberg last year, I wanted to read If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat, as recommended by Nat. But I don’t spend money to buy books (I read what I can borrow from people or [...]
Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game, wrote a series of fiction on the women of Genesis – Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel. When you read the life of Rebekah in the Bible, many questions come to mind: What made Rebekah agree to leave her family to go so far to marry a man she’s [...]
This book in the Ender’s Game series was a little hard to get through. The start was a little slow. I gave up, skipped a few chapters, read the end, and then went back to read it through. Orson Scott Card in this book Speaker for the Dead tells how humans and an alien species [...]